The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-10-26
ODDS AND ENDS.

Dan D1og0 S richest Cn1namen Is dead
name was Sow Kee, and his estate is worth
$500, 600.
A society in Detroit of men sworn not to
swear, numbers nearly one thousand per-
sons, 1t is said.
At point in deep ravins, two miles
from Wallingford, N. Y. iceit is said, forms
the year around.
Gounod has earned 900, 900 francs during
the last three years, and has sold his loan
of Arc mass for 20. 600 francs.
A prominent hotel steward in Chicago is
said to make good income by teaching
wealthy but inexperienced epicures the art
of dining.
Han official list Just published shows
there are thirty-fve widows of revolution
airy soldiers still drawing pensions from the
government.
Sawdust has succeeded straw for horse
bedding in several of the street railway
stables in Boston. and ii is said to be about
one-half less costly.
F. r. CIawsbay, a GIamorganshire,
Wales, magistrate, was recently fined 50
and costs for spearing a salmon in the
Evenly river in July last.
The potato famine in Maine is becoming
a serious matter with the farmers. One
farmer says that two men will dig all day
to get nine bushels, and many OF these
will be TOO small for the table.
The American of Ellsworth, Me-, tells a
sad story of the life of the waiter girls in
the Bar Harbor hotels. It says that the
life there is very demoralziDg, and that
many an innocent country girl falls into
fast company and is ruined there.
Aunt Katie Shelby, az aged negress, who
died few days ago in Shawneetown, ILL.,,
claimed to be 12j years old, and good judges
thought that she was certainly 115. She
was a middle sged woman when Lafayette
stopped in Shawneetown over sixty years
ago.
Less than year ago Home of Rest for
Horses was established by certain merciful
persOns in London, and since then more
than fifty horses belonging to tradesmen
and others in moderate circumstances have
bad rest and recreation at Neasden and
Sudbury.
The oldest postmaster in Connecticut is
Richard Chadwick, of South Lyme, who
received his first appointment from Pres
ident Van Buren,, and has been in Office
for forty-eight consecutive years. He has
seen postage reduced from twenty-five TO
two cents.
In its mention of the arrival in Washing
ton of the famous Putnam Phalanx of
Connecticut, a paper of that city got it
Phantom Phalspx" This, however, WIS
not so bad as making Boston's Ancient and
Honorable Artillery the Antique and
Horrible"
Josiah Graston is the pride of Bolton,
Texas, because he is 100 years old, having
been born in North Carolina in 177S. Mr..
Grastons pride is in the fact that his
first vote was cast for Thomas jefferson,
and that he has always voted the Demo
cratic ticket.
The members of the Moyamensing Hook
and Ladder Company OF Chester, Pa, are
mourning the death of Budd, the dog of
the company. He was buried in a neat
coffin, wrapped in the Stars and Stripes,
and the truck has been handsomely draped
in black and white in his memory.
Hiram Smith, of Wavery, Mich, has
had his share OF accidents. He put out
one eye, fell into well fifty feet deep, fell
forty feet out of a tree, tell into a oIstern
and was nearly drowned, and, short time
ego. while engaged in blasting stumps, he
was blown ten feet into the air, fracturing
one of his feet.
A Hartford man has invented an sppar-
atus for timing horses. A clock with three
hands-minute, second and quarter Sec
ond-is started by the official timer. When
the winning house touches the wire the
clock is stopped by electricity. At the
same instant the current opens 3 camera,
which photographs the horse and the clock
1 ICE.
Heart disease due to tight lacingn was
the cause of death given by the coroner's
Jury in the case of Bertha Oppenheimer,
of PHILADELPHIA, who fell back with q cry
OF pain while laughing at a comedians
joke in theatre during recent matinee.
Young ladies tightly enclosed in corsets
should never venture Beyond a gentle
smile.
at the ball at 0ldtown, Me-, recently
given by the Governor of the Main Indians,
one hadsome young souaw was fairly
dazzling in a very becoming costume of
blue satin and old gold plush, with an
deliberately embroidered front to the skirt,
and another wore q dress OF combined
bright scarlet and bright blue.
A pail filled with fresh mortar fell from
the top of the new court house IN Macon,
Ca, and struck squarely on its bottom on
the head of colored workman who was
standing on the ground. The bottom was
split into flinders and the pail and the
mortar completely encased his face, so that
he was in great danger OF szsotherlng until
relieved by fellow workman.
To make children have pretty teeth,
French authority says begin with the
second dentition to press back with the
finger every morning the teeth which have
tendency to press forward those which
turn backward. As a wash boil in a tum-
blerful of water pinch OF quassia wood
with a pinch of pulverised cacao. 1t
strengthens the gums and wnitens the
teeth. Wash the mouth after each meal
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